---
title: "Think Machine — Brad Jasper"
description: "Think Machine (2024), a project by Brad Jasper: turns notes and research into a 3D map of ideas you can explore and talk to."
url: https://bradjasper.com/projects/think-machine/
---

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# Think Machine

Live · 2024 · Web · Desktop · AI

Turns notes and research into a 3D map of ideas you can explore and talk to.

- [thinkmachine.com](https://thinkmachine.com/)

![Think Machine showing a document beside a graph of the ideas in it](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/thinkmachine.Bj6zRp9w_1cdf2X.webp)

Think Machine is a mind-mapping and knowledge-graph app. You write ideas as plain text with arrows, such as Socrates → Plato → Aristotle, and it draws them as a map in 2D or 3D that you can fly through, filter and expand.

The first version, in March 2024, was a 3D hypergraph mind mapper built on [Thinkable Type](https://bradjasper.com/projects/thinkable-type/). In August 2024 a new version added the HyperEditor, where notes and maps are one document. InstaCartography turns notes, documents and websites into maps; Wayfinder AI answers questions with your whole graph in view; and Interwingle sets how tightly the ideas connect. It runs on the web and as a Mac and Windows app.

It borrows from the oldest ideas in computing: Vannevar Bush’s Memex and its trails, Ted Nelson’s hypertext, and Stephen Wolfram’s hypergraphs, combined with today’s language models. I wrote about that lineage in [From Memex to Think Machine](https://bradjasper.com/blog/evolution-of-knowledge-management/).

## Writing

- [From Memex to Think Machine: The Evolution of Knowledge Management](https://bradjasper.com/blog/evolution-of-knowledge-management/) · August 2024
- [Thinkable Type: A Knowledge Graph Toolkit](https://bradjasper.com/blog/thinkable-type/) · March 2024

## Videos

[Learn Think Machine: Symbols and Connections](https://bradjasper.com/videos/learn-think-machine-symbols-and-connections/) · Demo · July 2025 · [Watch on YouTube ↗](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO4T6YM-Ca0)

[Introducing Think Machine: Deep Research Made Simple](https://bradjasper.com/videos/introducing-think-machine/) · Demo · October 2024 · [Watch on YouTube ↗](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HovXY-vWYys)

[Getting Started with Think Machine](https://bradjasper.com/videos/getting-started-with-think-machine/) · Demo · August 2024 · [Watch on YouTube ↗](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6ZgFY8CBY)

[How to Use Think Machine](https://bradjasper.com/videos/how-to-use-think-machine/) · Demo · March 2024 · [Watch on YouTube ↗](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W08derOVMIo)

[Think Machine: Original Launch](https://bradjasper.com/videos/think-machine-original-launch/) · Demo · March 2024 · [Watch on YouTube ↗](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93M3R9klNyY)

[![A 3D Think Machine map of machine learning topics, glowing labels joined by colored lines on black](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/think-machine-3d-map-2024.5b2HIFy4_13Q6AE.webp)](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/think-machine-3d-map-2024.5b2HIFy4_13Q6AE.webp)

The first version, 2024: a 3D map of machine learning topics.

[![The HyperEditor: lines like Philosophy → Ethics → Morality on the left, the same ideas as a 3D map on the right](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/think-machine-hypereditor.B2amKc9W_Z1Gs0aW.webp)](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/think-machine-hypereditor.B2amKc9W_Z1Gs0aW.webp)

The HyperEditor, 2024: chains of ideas typed as text on the left become the map on the right.

[![A trail link from Socrates to Alexander the Great above notes on Aristotle, beside the Aristotle node and a chat answer](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/think-machine-trail-links-chat.DBxexpTn_v7YWe.webp)](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/think-machine-trail-links-chat.DBxexpTn_v7YWe.webp)

A trail link and notes on Aristotle, with Wayfinder AI answering about the selected idea.

[![The Think Machine desktop app in light mode: a History of Humans document, its map and an AI chat side by side](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/think-machine-desktop-2025.DRhNxR6K_Z22PMbx.webp)](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/think-machine-desktop-2025.DRhNxR6K_Z22PMbx.webp)

The desktop app, 2025: editor, graph and chat in one window.